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Winning with Trump and Bibi- brilliant article! michael0kern.substack.com/p/the-chokepoi… It’s not the missiles that closed the Strait. It’s the actuarial (insurance) tables. Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dropped from an average of 138 vessels per day to roughly two.

@araghchi “This conflict, which should never have happened, has no reason to continue,” the Chinese ministry wrote, adding that it wants to help the parties find peace." Except the US and Israel want it to continue

Americans are told that they must absorb rocketing costs of war of choice on Iran. Put aside gas price hike and stock market bubble. Real pain begins when U.S. debt and mortgage rates start to jump. Auto loan delinquencies are already at 30+-year high. This was all avoidable.

@WarMonitor3 Real story from a serious account: x.com/i/status/20552…

Wow!

@RichardDias_CFA Build 5 pipelines to the coast? Jesus christ. Who is going to pay to fill that? Let's say at beat $40k per barrel to increase production so if we now bumped it up to 5 million extra barrels of production that would be $200 billion to increase production. Nobody wants debt

@PithyTruth @EricTrump @LaraLeaTrump @POTUS @realDonaldTrump He won't

@EricTrump @LaraLeaTrump An honor to watch @POTUS @realDonaldTrump get played by Xi?? Do you think he is going to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open??!!

What an honor! #China

@_A_khalifa UAE government are testicle-washers for Netanyahu

@elonmusk researchgate.net/publication/36…

Beware the empathy exploit. Empathy is good and right when thought through (deep), but can be deadly to civilization when simply stimulus-response (shallow). For example, releasing a repeat violent offender may feel good at first (shallow empathy for the criminal), but it is wrong to do so when that person will go on to hurt or murder innocent victims, as there should be deep empathy for future victims.

@elonmusk humanity survived and thrived because of it's compassion and empathy- Of course Elon isn't a fan of humanity nor is Gaad. Much research on this topic outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/2015-11-the-na…

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NEW: 🇨🇳🇺🇸 Trump confirmed today that China is refusing to buy NVIDIA chips because they are developing their own This once again confirms that the US has lost the main bargaining card with China which I wrote about it yesterday. TRUMP: “They have (Nvidia) a much higher level than H200.China needs it and yeah it came up. They choose not to buy because they want to develop their own. I think something could happen on that.”

technocracy.news/pax-silica-who… This is not merely a trade summit. It is a negotiation over who controls the AI stack. And because the AI stack is physical — chips, minerals, energy, cables, ports, payment rails, and data centers — the fight over artificial intelligence is also a fight over geography. The question is no longer simply who wins, America or China. The question is: who owns the rails of the AI civilization?

🚨⚡ JUST IN : The Russians have detained 40 Israelis at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, after determining they were involved in the war with Iran.

@kevin_inalberta @GoodwinMJ And yet they protested. As I did on the streets of my home town in Ontario- Freely. Yes, there was flack from the gov, but, the protests went on and on all across Canada

@GoodwinMJ Much like Canada with the truckers. Protest is allowed for the activist class, for the academics, for the leftists who pretend to care about the working class -- but not for the working class themselves.

If you’re wondering what is going on in the UK right now, the state is having a complete meltdown about the working-classes of this country daring to mobilise on the streets. Until now, the political class and the state have been absolutely fine with people protesting. Islamist sympathisers? Fine. Antisemites? Fine. Pro-Iran stooges? Fine. BLM revolutionaries who protest while breaking Covid laws? Fine. The prime minister will even ‘Take the Knee’ to show he is with you. If you’re a ‘former’ Islamist and ally of al-Qaeda he’ll even invite you into Number 10 Downing Street for a cup of tea. And if you’re an antisemite who calls for violence against white people and the West, such as Alaa Abd El-Fattah? He’ll welcome you with open arms. But if you happen to belong to the decent majority of hardworking, tax-paying and patriotic Brits whose ancestors actually built this country then you must be treated very differently. You are considered a threat. You are considered dangerous. You are considered divisive. You are considered evil. The very same state that has pushed people to the very edge - by refusing to fix the borders, by flooding the country with 200,000 illegals, by unleashing mass sexual assaults, by entrenching two-tier justice - now demands that the people who have to live with this do not say anything about it at all. And if they do protest, then they must feel the full force of the law in a way that others do not. The majority must be policed while minorities are protected. Facial Recognition technology. Revised CPS guidance. Countless more police. Warnings from politicians. The only silver lining is that now, today, everybody can see it. Everybody can see what is happening. It’s out in the open. The bias is unavoidable. And everybody has had enough. Keir Starmer and the British state clearly hate many of their fellow citizens. They clearly do not view people who happen to hold different views as legitimate. But by treating them in this way they are only ensuring that the numbers of those who do choose to protest tomorrow spiral to levels they can no longer contain, silence, ignore, or dismiss.

2/The U.S. president badly needed a win as his administration struggles to contain the political and economic fallout from the war with Iran. The highly anticipated visit may have offered a short-term distraction, but it likely will do little to shift the narrative.

pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2026/05/15/tru… So very obvious

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@Mbakaza4L Hind's story is not fiction.

Almost 200 former senior Canadian diplomats are calling on @MarkJCarney to impose “robust” sanctions on Israel. “It is evident that without robust international sanctions the Israeli government will persist in disregarding international law and human rights” ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…